On 18/12/2007, Nathan Awrich nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
On the last bit, I would say that is not necessarily the case. In fact, it frequently is not. That is nominally the way jurisdictional law works in the US, as far as I know, but even then there are exceptions based on the effect of your actions (i.e. if you shoot a gun in Texas and hit someone in Mexico, Mexico might reasonably request your extradition).
The law tends to have different views on how to handle libelling people versus killing them... Criminal charges and extradition are pretty much glaringly improbable for defamation suits, but jurisdictional forum-shopping is plausible. If that happens, of course, we deal with it as and when.
But it's worth remembering that the biggest and most glaring likelihood of such forum-shopping is not an obscure defamation somewhere on the Albanian Wikipedia and a summons to Tirana, but someone suing us in a British (or Australian?) court, and that could happen *now*, with material published on enwp!